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DRYING HOUSE.

No. 351,662. Patentedy 061:4. 26, 1886.

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DRYING HOUSE. v rra-351,662. y Patented oct. 26,1886.

VTo all whom it may concern:

UNITED STAT-Es "PATENTY- OFFICE.

PAUL snuoNs, or DAEMsTADT, HEssE, GERMANY.

DRYlNG-HOUSE.

SPECIFICATION forming part'. of Letters Patent No. 351,662, dated October 26,- 1886.

Application filed May 26, 1886. Serial No. 203,311. (No model.)

Be it known that I, PAUL SIMoNs, engineer, a subject of the Grand Duke of Hesse, and residingin Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German'Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Drying-Houses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to houses for drying bricks, tiles, potters-ware, Snc., preparatory to their burning; and the improvements consist in the combination, with a series of separate drying-chambers, of an air-heating apparatus, alhot-air-distributing chamber extending over thedrying-chambers, means for causing the heated air to pass through the dryingchambers from the top to the bottom, and for regulating the current of air in any chamber independently of the other ones.

On the accompanying two sheets of drawings is represented'a drying-house carried out according to my invention. Figure Vl is a vertical section thereof on line a la ot Fig.'3. Fig. 2 is a like section on the line ef. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan; Fig. 4, a transverse section on line c d, and Fig. 5 a transverse section on theline g h of Fig. 3.

In the house shown by the drawings the dryingchambers Aare placed in two rows,r and they communicate by doors with a passage, C, for the conveyance of theware to and away from the chambers. At the side of either of the said rows two heating-chambers, B, are arranged, each of which is provided with a stove, W, adapted to heat the air entering at I, and connected by a flue, H, with the chimney G.

Above all the lchambers A there is a commonl chamber, D, communicating as well with the chambers B as with the chambers A, and having the purpose to uniformly distribute the heated air over the latter. At the bottom each chamber A communicates through grates K with a channel, E, leading to one of the chimneys G. Preferably a portion vof the channels E is formed by met-al pipes F, conducted through vthe iiue H, for the purpose of increasing the draft in the channels and through the chambers A. This draft may be regulatedV and stopped by Hap-valves R, ar-

ranged between the chambers D and A, and Y by valves R in the channels E.

By means of the construction and combination of the parts constituting the said dryinghouse, the green bricks, 85e., may be dried during any kind of weather and at any temperature ofthe outer air. The drying takes place uniformly, and it may be regulated with facility, according to the nature of the ware.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination,with adrying-chamber, A, of a heating-chamber, B, provided with a stove, W, an air-distributing chamber, D, eX- tendng over the chamber A and communicating with the chambersA and B, chimney G, and means, substantially as described, of communication between the bottom of chamber A and the said chimney, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, with the drying-chamber A, heating-chamber B, stove W, air-distributing chamber D, and chimney G, of the ue H and the channel E, extending from the chamber A to the chimney, a portion of said channel being formed by a pipe, F, conducted through the iiue H, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3; The combination, with the drying-cham- 'ber A, heating-chamber B, stove lV, air-distributing chamber D, chimney G, and channel E, of the valves k between the chambers A and D, and the valves R in channel E, substantially as speciiied.

4. The combination, with a seriesofdryingchambers, A, ofthe heating-chambers B, the air-distributing chamber D, extending over the chambers A and communicating withthe chambers A and B, chimney G, and means, substantiallyvas described, of communication between the bottom of the chambers A and said chimney, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have heren nto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. i

PAUL sIMoNs.

Witnesses:

LUDWIG SUNG, WALTER H. SCHULZ. 

